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Dr. Nasser Mansour

Dr. Nasser Mansour

Title:
Lecturer in Science Education
Primary Discipline:
Education  / Educational Leadership  / Research Methodology  / Assessment and Evaluation
Member Type:
Staff
Last Login:
November 10, 2011
Member Since:
January 7, 2008

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Skills & Interests

  • Education / TeacherEd / Teaching Methods / Science (Expert)
    His main research interests are in aspects of teaching and learning in science, including STS (Science, Technology and Society education); controversial issues, scientific literacy, the relationship between religion and science education; learners’ ideas, misconceptions, alternative conceptions and alternative frameworks; constructivism in science education; learner thinking; creative thinking in science explanations in science; teaching about the nature of science; science teachers’ beliefs and practices, teacher professional development; Multi-cultural studies in science education and Grounded Theory.

Associations

  • The Science Education Review
    Editor 01/2008 – Current
  • • European Science Educational Research Association (ESERA).
    Member 09/2005 – Current
  • • British Educational Research Association (BERA)
    reviewer 09/2005 – Current

Education History

  • PhD (01/2008)
    School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, UK
  • Diploma on understanding children (11/2007)
    Open University, UK
  • Master of Education in Special of ‘Curriculum and Instruction of Science’ with a general degree Excellent. (05/1998)
    Faculty of education, Tanta University, Egypt

Publications

  • Mansour, N.. (in press). the experiences and Personal Religious Beliefs of Egyptian science teachers as a framework for understanding the shaping and reshaping of their beliefs and practices about Science-Technology-Society (STS) in International Journal of Science Education.
  • Mansour, N.. (2007). Challenges to STS: Implications for science teacher education in Bulletin of science, technology and society. (27, (6), 482-497.).

Presentations

  • Teacher motivation to implement cooperative learning (CL) and social constraints in Saudi Arabia (SA) secondary schools., 05/07/2008
    Paper accepted at The Saudi Innovation Conference, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK, May.
  • Exploring Science teachers’ orientations towards teaching and learning of science., 09/17/2007
    A paper presented to the European Educational Research Association (EERA) annual conference at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium (Ghent), 17th to 21st September.
  • Religious beliefs: a hidden variable in the performance of teachers in the science classroom., 09/17/2007
    A paper presented at the European Educational Research Association (EERA) annual conference at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium (Ghent), 17th to 21st September.

Positions

  • Science Education Lecturer (01/2008 – Current) Faculty of Education, Tanta University, Egypt.
  • Research Assistant (12/2005 – 04/2004) School of Education, University of Exeter, UK.
  • Assistant lecturer (01/2003 – 05/1998) Faculty of Education, Tanta University, Egypt.